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Research

At CUPS, we continually strive towards building the capacity of our
participants. The economic downturn made it certain that now, more than
ever, is an extremely important time to ensure that our programs produce
the greatest returns to our participants. In combination with our work
on strengthening our internal system and structure, it became clear that
evidence-based programming, rigorous data collection, and evaluation
was the right direction to head towards.

We can now say that over 80% of our programs are evidence-based and tied
to logic models, program evaluation is a continuous process that drives
change, and our credibility and professionalism as a not-for-profit
organization has skyrocketed. We have attracted new leadership,
partnerships, and research requests from external agencies.

This step towards research and evaluation has improved our capacity as
an organization to help our participants discover the tools they have
within themselves to fish for a lifetime.